PATCH: dispose Graphics after each paint, to recover resources (particularly memory)

[Scott Gilbertson]

This patch prevents awt paint events from chewing up all your RAM (128M in
my case).

Oscar Pearce posted this code on the java mailing list.  I built it and
tested it with my application.  Before the patch, my application would crash
with a kernel "out of memory" error.  Now it doesn't.  I originally thought
I'd have to modify some dispose methods in xlib to propagate between
classes, but that seems already to have been done.

Index: libjava/ChangeLog
from  Oscar Pearce <oscar@pearceenterprises.com> and Scott Gilbertson
<scottg@mantatest.com>

 * java.awt.Component.processPaintEvent: now disposes Graphics object each
pass, to recover resources

patch is attached.


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